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merely

/meer-lee/US // ˈmɪər li //UK // (ˈmɪəlɪ) //

只是,仅仅是,仅是,仅仅

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : only as specified and nothing more; simply: merely a matter of form.
    • : Obsolete. without admixture; purely.altogether; entirely.

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Examples

  • Investors betting on Public, then, would be placing a wager on not merely future user growth, but the startup’s ability to monetize effectively in the future.

  • Someone asks again and again and again over several years and it’s neither cute nor flattering, and it goes beyond being merely unwelcome.

  • She merely notes how surprising it is that people like you accept the premise that your good fortune is a rebuke to her reverses.

  • Big data was the jam a while back, but it turned out to be merely one piece in the broader data puzzle.

  • The NBA has academies all over the world, but it is not just merely to develop young players.

  • Marrying yourself merely underscores selfishness and self-interest, rather than enabling you to live singly in the best way.

  • Later reports say that authorities claimed to be merely escorting him back to his house arrest.

  • “It was not merely the work in which he had constantly grown happier that he saw taken from him,” Howells notes.

  • I testified merely eight feet from this monster at a preliminary hearing.

  • As Rathod noted, SIX is not supposed to be merely the opposite of ALEC.

  • Janet's silence impressed Hilda: it was not merely strange--it was formidable: it affected the whole day.

  • We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.

  • Haggard merely played for the excitement, and Spunyarn because it was a lesser bore to play than to look on.

  • The America that they annexed to Europe was merely a new domain added to a world already old.

  • But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.